Improvement in heel-breasting machines



A. B. .IAOUITH & .I. WULOHAN.

Heel-Breasting Machines.

Patented Dec. 2,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Grrron.

ADDISON B. JAQUITH AND JAMES WOLOHAN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORSOF ONE-THIRD THEIR RIGHT TO ELBRIDGE A. JAQUITH,

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEEL'BREASTING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,06l, dated December2, 1873; application flled March 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ADDISON B. J AQUITH and JAMES WOLOHAN, both ofRochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have'inventedcertain Improvements in Machines for Breasting the Heels of Boots andShoes, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in the employment of a hinged stock for thesupport of the breasting-last, the latter being connected to the formerby a suitable dowel or dowels, which shall sustain said last in anydesired adjustment without a toe-rest, and at the same time to permitits angle of inclination to be varied by a set-screw.

The drawing represents a side elevation of our invention with thebreasting-last in section.

The object of our invention is to provide a simple apparatus fortrimming the breast of boot and shoe heels, which shall be both cheapand efficient, and which shall enable the work to be done with perfectuniformity and great rapidity.

A represents a base fitted to slide upon (Indicated by dotted lines at.)B is a stock, which is hinged, by the bolt v, to the base A, between theears or lugs b. The end of the arm 0 is secured in any desired elevationby means of the governingscrew s, which is tapped into the base A, andis swiveled through the end of the arm by means of the collars c, thebody of the screw fitting loosely in the arm. The last-block D isdetachably connected to the stock or supporter B by two strongdowel-pins, a. The several parts, i11- cluding the last-block, arepreferably made of metal.

The breastingchisel (represented by the dotted lines f and f) may berigidly fixed in abar connected, by a strap or otherwise, to

- a pedal below the base, so as to be pressed down by the foot of theoperator, while it may be raised by a spring or a counter-weight.

There may be an adjustable stop, g, at tached to the ways, (shown bydotted lines 12,) against which the base is pressed to gage the positionof the boot under the breasting-chisel,

and thereby govern the length of the heel; or a concave stop might bearranged so as to strike the base of the heel at '5 or 'i.

The operation is as follows: The boot or shoe is lasted or placed uponthe last D on the support B. There may be an ordinary lasting-strapapplied from the arm 0 around the instep of the boot, if desired. Thebase is moved against the stop g, if such is used. The breasting-chiselis then forced down by the foot of the operator, until the gage e,attached to the chisel, strikes the sole of the boot. The pedal is thenreleased, which permits the chisel to rise to its normal position, whenthe base A is withdrawnto the leftfrom under the chisel, that bootremoved, and another applied, and the operation repeated, which, withlittle practice, may be done with very great rapidity, and the greatestpossible uniformity.

When our invention is used in connection with a heeling-machine, thelast and boot are transferred from the latter to our machine withoutunlasting.

Instead of the two dowels a, a single square dowel and socket may beused, the object being to retain the last in a fixed position upon asingle support.

We are aware that adjustable last-standards have heretofore been used inlasting and in heelin g machines, &c.; but we are not aware that eitherin such, or in breasting-machines, an adjustable standard which could beadjusted and secured in any desired adjustment by means of a singlefixed set-screw, and without a toerest, has ever been used before ourinvention; therefore What we claim as our invention is- The pivotedstock B, with its arm 0 and ad justing-screw s, in combination with thesliding base A in breasting-machines, when the said stock is constructedto receive and retain the last D rigidly in its desired position oradjustment, substantially in the manner and for the purposes shown anddescribed.

A. B. J AQUITH.

Viitnesses: J. WOLOHAN.

WM. S. LOUGHBOROUGH, PATRICK MCINTYRE.

